Eating when depressed?

[Ricki]

Hello all food again!  What do you guys do when you are down some or depressed?
Do any of you guys eat or gorge yourselves?   like chocolate, sodas, sweets alcohol, cake, etc?
ricki

[Laurry]

Heya Ricki

Yes to all the above.  When I am down, I am a big fan of "comfort food".  I like everything from Ice Cream (which I seldom buy because I eat it all!!).  I also eat cookies (if I'm really down, I actually bake them myself...LOL).  Brownies are always good too.

I also will fry up some Chicken Fried steak and make gravy, mashed potatoes and corn.  Yeast rolls are always a plus.

My favorite "binging" food is new potatoes steamed over green beans.  Take a couple (or 3 or 4) large cans of green beans and pour them in a large pot.  Wash and quarter new potatoes (or red potatoes cut a little smaller than quarters) and put them into the pot on top of the green beans.  I ususally fix enough potatoes to fill the rest of the pot.  Add a little salt and pepper and let them cook.  The green bean "juice" steams the potatoes and gives them a great flavor.  I can smell them while they are cooking and it always makes the wait unbearably long.  Forget the rest of the meal as I eat these until I simply can't put anymore in my mouth and my stomach is killing me.

I tend to avoid alcohol when depressed (unless going out with friends) as alcohol is a depressant and it really doesn't help me feel any better.

......Laurie

 

[tinkerbell]

tinkerbell

[Ricki]

Tinkerbell interesting you drink the sweetended condensed milk or dip things in it?
Very sweet no?  culd be a vanilla fondue though?
Cool!  Laurie the green beans and reds are a classic dish so your chef skills get you an emeril rating of 8 out of 10! 
Alas i love wait i wanna say it again LOVE choclate problem is it more often than not causes migrianes for me! agghh to suffer the humnaity of it all!  HOHO's are a favorite treat my dog the white one in the pic loved hoho's....
Everyone know what a hoho is??  Not the swiss miss brand or little debbies it has to be hostess brand hoho's...
This choclate thing is making me hungry!  frown!!!!!!!!!!!!!! double 
R

[Laurry]

BAM!!!


We were never sure, but it seemed that Chocolate used to trigger my Mom's migraines too.  The good thing is that as she has gotten older, the migraines have gone away......uhh...now that I think about it, her migraines may have stopped when I left home...no...but maybe when my little sister left?? >

Hohos, eh?  All those culinary skills and you pick junk food?  Couldn't be homemade chocolate eclairs, scrumptious quadruple death-by-chocolate brownies or even some double-dipped bon bons...no, Hostess Hohos.   <Laurie sadly shakes her head and walks away>

Sorry hon, but I just couldn't resist.  And you look good in your chef outfit...hubba hubba!  Funny, I pictured you in French Maid's clothes 

...Laurie

[Ricki]

Fench maid.. I'd so much like one of those an authentic outfit not from a costume palor either!  I could slice the hoho's on a tray and serve them then... I would not wanna do anything from scratch and muss up my new maids outfit now! 
Well i make some mean homemade pies and cheesecakes.. I do not know what it is about hoho's?
Buy a box eat some as an experiment and tell me they are not good? hehe..
I may eat 16 in a years time that's the awful sin i have to really monitor chocolate!
Thanks for the compliment on the outfit the hat makes me taller hehe......

[Melissa]

Dang it, this thread is making me hungry.  Yes, I love eating food and even moreso when depressed.

Melissa

[Kate]

Hello all food again!  What do you guys do when you are down some or depressed?
Do any of you guys eat or gorge yourselves?   like chocolate, sodas, sweets alcohol, cake, etc?

Heck yes!

Though it's weird - I used to be able to down a bag of hershey kisses in a single sitting. And a carton of ice cream. And sodas. But suddenly, three months ago, the cravings just stopped. I actually dislike milk chocolate now. Soda gives me tummy aches. Ice cream... eh... tis merely OK.

So now I gorge on foods I've always loved: mainly rices and pastas (cheese, marsala(!!!!!!), or red sauces - no meat). Salads. Chicken. Wheat bread. Healthier than chocolate, but it starts to add up when you're eating like five meals a day....

[Genevieve]

Wow!!   LOL

Same here Ricki!   

I just worked my way out of a pretty deep depression and I was horrible about eating.

I need to pay the price for it now though.  hehe

*hugs*

Ganevieve

[Ellissa Ray]

Funny, I love food, would probably eat continuously if i wan't limmited by the amount my stomache can hold...but when I get depressed dont even feel like putting the effort into eating, or anything else for that matter. I just have to force myself to do what needs to get done to survive, including eating.

[Nero]

Hello all food again!  What do you guys do when you are down some or depressed?
Do any of you guys eat or gorge yourselves?   like chocolate, sodas, sweets alcohol, cake, etc?

Heck yes!

Though it's weird - I used to be able to down a bag of hershey kisses in a single sitting. And a carton of ice cream. And sodas. But suddenly, three months ago, the cravings just stopped. I actually dislike milk chocolate now. Soda gives me tummy aches. Ice cream... eh... tis merely OK.

So now I gorge on foods I've always loved: mainly rices and pastas (cheese, marsala(!!!!!!), or red sauces - no meat). Salads. Chicken. Wheat bread. Healthier than chocolate, but it starts to add up when you're eating like five meals a day....

Why Kate, how ever do you keep that lovely slim figure?

[Ricki]

Awesome!  I LUV hershey kisses too.. Well used to love'm them; I bet due to the headaches I'd conusme maybe two pounds total in a years time! Ughhh how depressing!  I used to like them with warm tea?  I . dunno why, does not sound good but was.. Caramels too!
We have a couple good "homemade" or local chocolate shops around here, Sarris candies is an hour away in another town and they pretty much distribute all over the country and worldwide via their website!  They have awesome chocolate and an old fashioned ice cream style palor!
i munched on a salad for lunch today which was not normal i usually do not eat a lunch! 
Depression food also for me is anything nachos or cool ranch doritos dipped in sour cream with jalapeno peppers.  that has its price though!!!
Thanks for the replys!
R

[Louise]

My favorite comfort food when I am feeling down is cookies.

Warm, homemade snickerdoodles fresh from the oven.  Yum.

[Shana A]

My answer can be summed up in one word, chocolate 

zythyra

[Ricki]

Louise!
I too love snickerdoodles!  and they are chocolate free!
I've made them at home, we buy a frozen one cooked and the dough and actually (this is at work) they are pretty good, buttery the cookie is a higher end cookie so butter is an ingredient not margarine!
yummy!
I like whole butter too!  Best to cook with this insteak of too much oils and margarine!

[LynnER]

When I get depressed I tend to go the other way.... to not eat...  The more depressed I am the less I'll eat and it can get so bad that I cant even hold down a half cup of tomato soup per day....  Boy am I glad thats over.....

When Im in a good mood I love to eat, just about anything and everything and for some reason E + chocolate = heaven ....... I never had much of a sweet tooth before but now I really have to watch it LoL

[nonie]

Sometimes I eat, sometimes I starve, the one thing I always do when depressed is sleep wayyy too much.

[Laurry]

Warm, homemade snickerdoodles fresh from the oven.  Yum.

AMEN!!!!!  My favorite cookie!

Sadly, I am sitting here eating a big bunch of chocolate covered mini donuts...so much for the diet tonight... guess I am more depressed than I thought...I thought I was only pizza depressed.  Wonder if it is loneliness on Halloween night or the embarrassing moment at work today. 

For the first year at my current job, I shared a cubicle with a(nother) girl...and we became pretty good friends.  I was in her cube looking at a report and she saw my nails and asked who manicured them and if they were polished.  I think I turned 47 shades of red as I told her they were buffed and not polished.  She even commented on how my nail tips were white where hers were more yellow.  Part of me loved it, and part of me wasn't ready for that question to pop up.

I think it may just be feeling lonely tonight.

.......Laurie 

[Ricki]

Mikko that happened to me too less eating during some depressive times, more sleeping?  I guess that is one reason why they say to force yourself to do something> hmmmmmmmm  advice easily given and not readily taken when in a slump!
Laurie, that's cool though did the workmate hint any negative tones or did it seem sincere that she was being sincere?  Interesting, you are pretty adapt in conversation so i figure you smoothed or buffed your way out of it, hehe........Get it buffed your way out of it LOL.....
You wanna hear something weird, happened in work too, i only ever divulged to one person early on who i thought would be a true friend she ended up not pbeing so;  i honestly did not think she understood my plight to even explain it right to anybody but...?  last year for some reason the chef in the kitchen he's 55 or so was in the freezer with me and out of the blue he says i saw this show last night on transsexuals on pbs you ever watch any of that stuff?  I was agahst to say the least, I simply replied no not really that stuff is unrealistic drama..and i do not watch much television anyway and never said anything else about it and he never did?
I was nuts... (in my head) my friends around here thought i was being paranoid, but you tell me why out the blue like that in a private area would he just say that?  I was and am suspicious that this lady leaked or made a comment about me?  I think the only reason why no one says anything is they probably do not know enough or know for sure and i am a boss to them i could potentially make their life a living hell, and our health system is very very aggressive about harrassment gender, race, sexual prefernce, you name it they are very accepting and supportive of these things and have a no tolerence policy.  We had to fire a guy who did a racial slurr to another employee even though the other employee acknowledged they were both joking it was in front of other employees and one was offended and reported it and he had to be terminated immediatly!
so i dunno you tell me?
am i being paranoid, or was that a freak thing?  i think i am justly paranoid!
R